Wednesday, July 20, 2005
All very meta: adjourned my second class to a nearby cafe, where I gave them the first part of "Burnt Norton" (yearbook epigram, recurrent solace) and the question scene from R&G are Dead; visited a nearby stream and drank from it; went to the cemetary and thought of cemetaries past (small moments of happiness, moments of incumbent sadness).
My new host family has a 5 year old. I don't know how to interact with five year olds, and feel miserly in the process. Also, younger than them. She's so cute and bouncy, and I don't know what to do...She's giggling right now, and dancing a jig in the hallway.
As per the stream, my host sister said the water is blessed and it certainly looked clean. As we were leaving, a guy with 4 plastic bottles came to get water from it. Meanwhile, some kids were skipping past the adjacent Christ statue- a miniature of the one in Rio- and through the water, incurring something of a Jeff Wall moment a la "The Drain" (hyperreality, "exaggerated yet verisimil tropes"-wha?) .
My new host family has a 5 year old. I don't know how to interact with five year olds, and feel miserly in the process. Also, younger than them. She's so cute and bouncy, and I don't know what to do...She's giggling right now, and dancing a jig in the hallway.
As per the stream, my host sister said the water is blessed and it certainly looked clean. As we were leaving, a guy with 4 plastic bottles came to get water from it. Meanwhile, some kids were skipping past the adjacent Christ statue- a miniature of the one in Rio- and through the water, incurring something of a Jeff Wall moment a la "The Drain" (hyperreality, "exaggerated yet verisimil tropes"-wha?) .
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